Iga is connected to Omi, to the southwest is Yamato, to the east is Ise divided by barren mountains, and to the northwest is a little connected to the mountain city of Kyoto.
It looks like mountains and forests, but inside it is a small basin with a pleasant climate and rich products. The farmland also has 100,000 dan, enough to feed 40,000 to 50,000 people.
There are four entrances to the outside in the mountain forest. The Kokaguchi of Omi, the Shinzukiguchi of Yamashiro, the Yamatoguchi of Yamato, and the Kadaguchi of Ise.
If you keep these holes, you can close the door and become a local bully. This is what the Hattori family thought at the time.
During the Yatsudai Shogun period, the Niki family governor was incompetent, and the Hattori family's merits as a public favor were instead given to others.
The Hattori family governor was a great man for a while, but he couldn't bear it and drove the guardian Niki family out of Iga country.
At that time, it was the Rebellion of the Eighth Shogun of the Shogunate. Although the shogunate was powerful, each family was busy fighting against each other, killing their own family members, so they had no time to take care of such trivial matters as the Iga Kingdom.
The Yatsushiro shogun simply sealed off the country and waited until later. This letter lasted for decades.
At first, the Niki family hoped that the shogunate would make the decision for her family.
But later on, the shogunate gradually weakened due to internal fighting, and the people of Iga country did not jump out of Iga country to provoke, and simply ignored this troublesome matter.
The shogunate ministers whose territory was close to the Iga country gradually discovered a way to make money, which was to sell daily necessities to the people of the Iga country at high prices.
After connecting with each other, they made great profits and distributed some of the profits to the Niki family. The Niki family had lost the country at that time, so they drank doves to quench their thirst and never mentioned the matter of Iga country again.
It just kept dragging on until today.
To the high-ranking martial artists above, this was just a trivial matter. But to the people of Iga Country, it was like a mountain. It was a dark night without any light for a long time.
At the beginning, the Hattori family governor was also high-spirited, conscious of his extraordinary talents, and looked down upon the mediocre guardianship of the Niki family.
I thought this was a matter of comparison between people, and if it doesn't work, just get out of here. But only when you are in charge of your own business do you know the price Shengtian Banzi has to pay.
Is she facing a mediocre family governor? What she is facing is the entire shogunate system, a medieval samurai society, a ruling group that is loose but suitable for feudal society.
One person and one family fights against a ruling group and against the entire society. What can you do? You can only despair.
Iga country has food, wood and minerals, so it should not be poor.
But after the shogunate issued an order, the surrounding countries stopped contacting Iga. The shogunate at that time was in civil strife, not weak.
You can hit others with your own fists. Who dares not to listen? Iga country was kicked out of the shogunate system and became an abandoned daughter in recent times.
People cannot just have food to eat. Thousands of years of evolution have made human society a complex complex, and no one can live alone.
Human beings need to trade. They can't do it without eating salt or wearing clothes. The Chinese people can only buy it at high prices.
Human beings need education. Without pen and paper, without books, without professors, the Iga Bushi Association became a group of savages.
Human beings need prevention and treatment. Without doctors, medicines, and communication, you can only rely on resistance for minor illnesses, but for serious illnesses, you have to wait for death.
In short, the sky is falling.
From being unruly and unruly at the beginning, he turned into begging grandpa and grandma everywhere and wanting to be punished.
After running into walls everywhere, I realized that I had been isolated. What’s even more frightening is that isolating myself has become a business, and it’s a very profitable business.
When the martial arts have interests, who needs humanity?
Therefore, the Iga people used their lives to work as mercenaries outside to earn meager wages, and gritted their teeth to buy the necessities of life.
This day has passed for decades.
Niki Yoshimasa accompanied Yoshigan into Iga country. There were several small villages outside Iga Mountain that belonged to the Niki family's territory.
Along the way, I introduced Yoshigan to the situation in Iga.
Although the Nimu family has been kicked out for many years, some news inside is still known. It is very important to Yiyin.
Convincing the people of Iga to be loyal is the most important starting point for the Yoshigan war. If there are no soldiers, it will be a fart war.
If you want the Iga people to be sincere enough to spend money and send troops, you have to know what they really think.
Yiyin has the privilege of making one-word decisions granted by the general, but how to use this power still needs to be considered.
After passing the village, Hitoshi Yoshimasa did not dare to go any further. In front of him was Shinzukiguchi, which belonged to the territory of the Iga clan.
The Niki family has lost the guardian of Iga this time, and they don't want to continue taking risks. Since you, Shiba Gozen, have taken on this responsibility, please work harder.
Iga country has four counties: Abai, Yamada, Iga, and Nabaru. Among them, Abai county is in the north, and it is also the place where Yoshihiro and his entourage entered.
Yoshihiro rode on the road, thinking about the individuals and events that Hitoshi Yoshimasa had said. Behind and behind him were four Hime samurai who were on guard, and riding beside him was Nizi Katsuhisa, the leader of this army.
Nizi Katsuhisa is very resourceful and since Akechi Mitsuhide is not around in this battle, she is the counselor that Yiyin relies on.
"Lord Nizi, how do you think we should start?"
Yiyin is not very smart, but he has one advantage: he is self-aware.
After many years of working as a slave, I know how capable I am. Even after re-living my life, I don't think I'm any smarter.
Therefore, keep a low profile when you should. Listen to more advice from people you can trust.
And Nizi Katsuhisa is the kind of Samurai Hime who is trustworthy and can listen more.
In order to revive Nizi's family, Nizi Katsuhisa and Yamanaka Yukimori fought for the shogunate here, and were not involved with many recent forces.
This is the reason why Akechi Mitsuhide felt at ease and allowed her to go out with Shiba Yiyin and serve as a military leader.
Since Nizi Shengjiu is here, he also wants to make a difference, so he will naturally try his best.
"Iga Country has also done some research before, and this time I listened to the details of the Niki family governor. I think the Fujibayashi family is the most suitable place to start."
At the beginning of Iga's reign, the Hattori family was leading the charge. The difficult days that followed were endless, and the Hattori family also went to Beijing many times to look for opportunities.
But the courtiers who had a lot to eat could not give her a chance to beg the general for mercy. After several times, she was also discouraged.
When the contemporary Hattori family governor Baochang went to Beijing to surrender for the last time when he was the twelfth generation shogun, he was still blocked.
He was also a courageous man. He led his people to Mikawa, and it is said that he has become an official of the Matsudaira family there.
This reminded Yoshigage of Matsudaira Takechiyo, the follower behind Oda Nobunaga, with whom he also had some interactions.
The current Iga country is divided into three parts.
In addition to the clan members left behind by the Hattori family who were attached to their homeland, there are also two branches of the Hattori family, the Momochi family and the Fujibayashi family. The three families are divided and ruled.
Among them, the most famous one is Momochi Santaifu, Momochi Family Governor, and the founder of Iga Ninja.
This Iga native had been a mercenary for so many years and was often maliciously used as cannon fodder by the samurai family, resulting in heavy casualties.
After Momochi Santaifu came to power, the Iga clan began to learn from the Koga clan. Instead of directly participating in the battle, they turned into ninja affairs such as spying on intelligence and assassinating important personnel.
There was no less money being made, but fewer people died. As a result, the prestige of the Three Taifus of Hundred Lands was greatly increased, and he became the most important among the Iga people.
But she has a strong character. Since she has chosen the path of assassination, she has made it clear that she is not prepared to make peace with the Wu family.
In the ninja profession, assassination is the most criticized thing by the samurai.
The samurai family likes to assassinate others, but they don't like to be assassinated. These ninjas who are good at assassination are naturally chamber pots, and they will make them sick after using them.
The Third Taifu of Baidi felt that the Wu family was shameless and could not be trusted, and there was nothing wrong with what he said.
The Hattori family has no backbone, and the Momochi family does not trust the Takeru family, so the only way to open the situation is from the Fujibayashi family.
While Shiba Yoshigan and Nizi Katsuhisa were talking, a string of shurikens were nailed to the ground in front of their horses, causing the horses to stand up in shock.